Contrived gangster film has Gazzara portraying the inhuman Capone who rose through mob ranks in Chicago to dominate a brutal underworld in the 1920s, until his fall through federal conviction of income tax eviction and eventual imprisonment. Gazzara appears to have stuffed 10 pounds of
cotton into each cheek (replacing the necessary tongue) to get that jowly Capone look or the Godfather image projected by Marlon Brando. No amount of swaggering or overacting is convincing here; Gazzara is simply an embarrassment, and the scenes showing the gangster going crazy (from paresis of
the brain stemming from syphilis) are absurd. Producer Corman geared this cliche-ridden mo...
Released:
1975
Rated:
R
Length:
101 mins